The mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and it is not uncommon for local officials in some remote places to collect excessive taxes. It is said that the imperial court asked them to collect so much tax money, but half of it went into the pockets of local officials.Or, the magistrate gave filial piety to his superiors. These are actually not unusual, but Ye Chengliang just felt angry when they were spread on Ye Chengliang's head.But Qi Qi, compared to those who have to serve corvee because they can't pay the corvee tax, his family is already in a better place, at least the two places will not be separated because of money.

On this day, a few servicemen gathered in the village with no labor and no money, and they left the village together led by the officials.When these people left, they happened to pass by the east of the village, and Ye Chengliang watched from the door. There were five people in total.Ye Chengliang was not very familiar with these five people, and it was only when Li Jinge told him that he knew which family they belonged to.

A lot of people were talking about it, saying that fortunately they made some money for building a house for Zhang Dazhuang's family this year, or else it would cost three hundred cash per person, how many of them could afford it?Seeing Ye Chengliang standing at the door, someone said: "Ah Liang, now that the stones have been harvested, do you have any other work at home?"

Ye Chengliang smiled and said: "For the time being, there will be no firewood, but in the future, I will definitely collect firewood at home, but there is no place to put it in the house at the moment. If you have to go to the mountains to collect firewood, you can save some at home and wait for my house." As soon as the space is vacated, it will be collected.” As for the construction of the house, enough workers have been hired, and the house is raised at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the construction is completed after the autumn harvest.

The best time to make candy is when the weather is cold. This year, he plans to ask Sun Ermeng and his wife to help collect nuts and make pralines for sale.And, white caramel can be made more at home this year, it's the best snack in winter.

What Ye Chengliang is most busy at the moment is the vegetable garden and what can be harvested in the mountains.The sticky corn grown in the vegetable garden is ready to eat. Apart from breaking off a few ears for the children to cook and eat every now and then, some of the older ones are hung outside to dry, thinking that they can be ground into sticky rice and can be made Eat coarse grain porridge, the whole family likes to eat this sticky corn porridge with the small pickles he made.After preparing the materials last year, he didn't have time to make a lot of pickles. This year he still wants to make eight-treasure pickles.

Now that Xiao Lizi hears and eats it, his ears start to froze. He likes Ye Chengliang to make him fresh food that he has never eaten before.He thinks his mother is amazing, and she will make a lot of food that other people's children have never eaten.

Ye Chengliang took Xiao Lizi's hand and said: "Then you have to work a lot today, so that I can prepare delicious food for you when you go back."

The mountain field that Zhang Dazhuang planted for Ye Chengliang was full of peanuts this year, and Ye Chengliang and Zhang Dazhuang brought the children to dig peanuts.Li Jinge and Haiqing watched the family work, and the couple didn't worry about anything wrong.

It was the first time for the children to do this kind of work when they grew up so big. In fact, except for Zhang Hezhi, the other children had never done any work at all.Although they are not biological, Zhang Dazhuang loves them from the bottom of his heart, so he seldom asks them to do anything.But it's not like that when it's Ye Chengliang's turn to teach the children. He thinks that children should experience more different lives, so that they can learn more and understand the difficulties of their parents.

When he arrived at the place, Ye Chengliang began to assign work, "Da Zhuang, you come and pick it up, I will pick it up with the children and put it in the bag."

Zhang Hezhi saw what Zhang Dazhuang was doing and said, "Father, I'll come to pick it up too. After we finish it, everyone will pick it up together, it seems to be faster."

Ye Chengliang didn't want Zhang Hezhi to be too tired, but after thinking what he said was right, he agreed.So the family of six began to harvest peanuts. Under the plants that had been pulled out, there were strings of peanuts that were full and solid.

Xiao Lizi remembered that Ye Chengliang said that he would do good things if he worked a lot, so despite his small size, he squatted on the ground like a ball, but it actually helped a lot.The chubby little hands really grabbed a lot of peanuts with the effort of breastfeeding.

Zhang Dazhuang and Zhang Hezhi pulled out the peanuts and knocked off the soil as much as possible before letting Ye Chengliang and the three younger ones collect them together.

Later Liu Datong came with his wife and children.Their family's field also planted peanuts this year. Speaking of which, Zhang Dazhuang and his family planted the peanuts here with the help of Liu Datong, because they were not at home at the time.

Xiao Lizi had a sweet mouth, turned his head and said, "Brother Xiaotong, you are here!"

Xiao Tong took the medicine Yun Qing prepared during this period, and he has changed somewhat. Although he is still very quiet, he still has a little desire to communicate with others.He heard Xiao Lizi call his name, looked at Xiao Lizi, let out an almost inaudible hey, but still held Li Yufen's hand, obviously he was really frightened by Zhang Baolin's torment last time.

"Xingzhi, Qianzhi, you go and bring Xiaotong over to pick peanuts." Ye Chengliang said: "Sister-in-law, don't be too nervous, let the children play more, Xiaotong will get better sooner."

"En." Dr. Yunqing and Dr. Situ also said the same thing. This is the reason why Li Yufen took Xiaotong out more often recently. He patted Xiaotong on the shoulder and said, "Go Xiaotong, go with brother and brother." For fun, let them pick peanuts together."

Xiaotong had been with these children before, and he was not very unfamiliar. He actually went there. Although he still didn't talk much, he saw Qianzhi and Xiao Lizi picking them up, and imitated their actions together. And soon you can successfully pick the peanuts and put them aside.

"Hey, I have another helper in my family." Ye Chengliang picked the peanuts with a face, and his face was a little different from the usual excitement.Zhang Dazhuang only found out later that Ye Chengliang especially liked these fruits that were buried in the ground and dug up piles, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and peanuts.

"By the way, Ah Liang, have you heard? Chen Qiufeng took Zhang Dali's money to pay the corvee tax for her two brothers, but refused to take the money to redeem Zhang Dali's aunt. It seems that Zhang Dali is really going to divorce him. "Li Yufen has seen that the child's health is getting better and better in recent days, and the family has saved some money to build a house. The whole person is more energetic than before, and she will chat with the parents in the village when she is free.She felt that it was boring to clean up the peanuts, so she told Ye Chengliang what she had heard from Shi Ling before.

"Heh, that's obviously going to be against Zhang Dali. But let me tell you, these two dogs bite the hair of the dog and pinch it off." Ye Chengliang was working, thinking that some of these peanuts would be made into peanut candy, and Part of it should be dried and saved for frying, and part of it can also be fried peanuts or pickled vegetables!

"Are you hungry? Why are you slobbering?" Zhang Dazhuang asked suddenly beside Ye Chengliang.

"Why are your ears so good?! Can I suck it?" Ye Chengliang rolled his eyes, looked at Li Yufen, and asked slightly: "By the way, sister-in-law, there are some people who are free before the autumn harvest. Why don't you build the house first?" up?"

"Cover! Yesterday, your brother Datong said that there are quite a few people, and we will build it after the land here is collected." Li Yufen always felt that it was inconvenient to talk too far away, so she said to Liu Datong: "He Dad, let’s take A’liang’s first, since we’re far away from here, we’ll have to shout if we’re talking.”

"No, no, we can go there." Ye Chengliang greeted the whole family to go to the Liu family's land, "After collecting your house, you should start building the house quickly, and the Mid-Autumn Festival will be in a month. We're all busy, so hurry up."

"Wow!——!!" The good atmosphere was suddenly interrupted by Xiao Lizi's high-pitched howl, "Caterpillar, mother, whoa——!" To put it bluntly, the big golden beans snapped off.

"Where is it? Don't get stung." Ye Chengliang hurried over to look at it, and the other children also hurriedly dropped the things in their hands, but after a closer look, the bug was jumped off by Xiao Lizi , showing how much jitter.

"It's okay, it's okay, you trampled it to death." Ye Chengliang showed the worm after he trampled it to death, "It's okay, we're wearing clothes and pants, it can't sting."

"Mother, Xiao Lizi is afraid." Xiao Lizi hugged Ye Chengliang's neck with tears in his eyes, his nose flowed out, and he hiccupped from crying in just a short while: "Hi, I don't want to pick peanuts, hi, I want to go home... …belch!"

"It's so boring to go home, can foster father give you snails with peanuts?"

"snails???"

"Yeah." Ye Chengliang put the peanuts one by one, forming an unclosed circle, extending and extending, and finally shaking his head and eyes, he became a big snail...

Xiao Li was stunned for a while, and finally put together with Xiao Tong and the little pliers, and next to the big snail, put the small snail, and finally put out a total of nine.Later, when we were eating lunch, everyone gathered together, and I saw Xiao Tong pointing to those snails and saying: "Father, mother, Uncle A Liang, Uncle Da Zhuang, Brother Zhi, Brother Xiao Xingzi, Xiao Tong, Xiao Li, Xiao Xiao same."

Everyone was stunned after hearing this, because they had never heard Xiaotong say so many words at one time, and he made it very clear that he replaced these snails into people!Li Yufen was about to cry when she heard this, and she was so excited to hold the baby that she didn't know what to do. She felt that this was the happiest day since she knew that Xiaotong was not in good health. She was so happy that she didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

Ye Chengliang felt that Xiaotong should be guided to talk more at this time, so he asked a few children to let them talk to Xiaotong more, but don't talk too much at the beginning, and don't talk for too long, lest Xiaotong can't handle it .

When going down the mountain, no matter how big or small they were, they were reluctant to put away those peanut snails. They just happened to be confiscated. Zhang Dazhuang said, "Let's talk about it if you don't know."

"But..." Li Yufen was a little hesitant. What if there are so many peanuts stolen at night or the animals in the mountains take them away?What a pity.

"Children, let's put these away and arrange them tomorrow, shall we?" Ye Chengliang said, "Otherwise, if a little rabbit comes and steals our peanuts at night, there will be no snails tomorrow."

"Ah? Then put it away quickly!" Since it can still be displayed tomorrow, it doesn't matter!

So the nine peanut snails were immediately covered by Ye Chengliang's clothes. For the others, Liu Datong carried a sack, Zhang Dazhuang carried a sack, and the group went down the mountain.Down the mountain, there was another surprise waiting for them.

After the arrangement above, Sun Jie from Huangping County was transferred to be the guard of Yitong Town. Although he was transferred from the county, he was originally an assistant, but now he is the top leader. Although the administrative level is poor, for Sun Jie For me, or for the majority of people in Hongsha Village, this is a great thing.How nice the village was when Sun Jie's father was in Lizheng. Now that Sun Jie came back to be a guard, wouldn't it be better?Those who had been friends with the Sun family in the past are all happy now, only those in the Zhang family feel as if they have eaten a fly.

In the early years, because Zhang Dali passed the linsheng examination, Sun Jiesheng was overwhelmed.But you see?Feng Shui took turns, now Sun Jie is the guard, but Zhang Dali is still a scholar.It will be another two years before the exam, and who can say that he will definitely pass the exam next time?

For a while, everyone spread the news, saying that life in Hongsha Village would definitely get better and better in the future.

In contrast, Sun Li and Zhao Jing felt much more depressed.It's not because the child has changed from the county master to the guard, but... this stubborn brat insists on living with Situ Chenfei!If it was Situ Chenfei who was pestering Sun Jie, then Zhao Jing could go to talk to Situ Chenfei to vent her anger, but her son was rushing to post back, and he would pay him back!No!want!

Is there anything more depressing than this? !

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